Lord of the Flies
Winner of the Nobel Prize fot Literature

Quel est le sujet du livre "Lord of the Flies"

When a plane crashes on a remote island, a small group of schoolboys are the sole survivors. From the prophetic Simon and virtuous Ralph to the lovable Piggy and brutish Jack, each of the boys attempts to establish control as the reality - and brutal savagery - of their situation sets in.

The boys' struggle to find a way of existing in a community with no fixed boundaries invites readers to evaluate the concepts involved in social and political constructs and moral frameworks. Ideas of community, leadership, and the rule of law are called into question as the reader has to consider who has a right to power, why, and what the consequences of the acquisition of power may be. Often compared to Catcher in the Rye, Lord of the Flies also represents a coming-of-age story of innocence lost.

People note British writer Sir William Gerald Golding for his dark novels, especially
The Lord of the Flies
(1954); he won the Nobel Prize of 1983 for literature.

People best know this British novelist, poet, and playwright for this novel. Golding spent two years, focusing on sciences, in Oxford but changed his educational emphasis to English, especially Anglo-Saxon, literature.

During World War II, he served as part of the royal Navy, which he left five years later. This experience strongly influenced his future novels. Later, he taught and focused on writing. Classical Greek literature, such as that of Euripides, and
The Battle of Maldon
, an Anglo-Saxon oeuvre of unknown author influenced him.

College students in the 1950s and 1960s gave the attention to Lord of the Flies, first novel of Golding; their attention drove that of literary critics. He was awarded the Booker Prize for literature in 1980 for his novel
Rites of Passage
, the first book of the trilogy To the Ends of the Earth. He received knighthood in 1988.

In 2008, The Times ranked Golding third on their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945."